Bill Text: NY A05672 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Authorizes public agencies to provide access to information that is about materials, processes or actions that could cause harm to the public health or safety, or the environment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A05672 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05672-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Authorizes public agencies to provide access to information that is about materials, processes or actions that could cause harm to the public health or safety, or the environment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A05672 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05672-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5672 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 5, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON, COOK, PAULIN, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED, LENTOL, RIVERA, ROBINSON, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to access to public agency records that are commercial enterprise trade secrets THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of the public 2 officers law, as amended by chapter 289 of the laws of 1990, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (d) are trade secrets or are submitted to an agency by a commercial 5 enterprise or derived from information obtained from a commercial enter- 6 prise and which if disclosed would cause substantial injury to the 7 competitive position of the subject enterprise, PROVIDED THAT AN AGENCY 8 MAY PROVIDE ACCESS TO SUCH RECORDS OR PORTIONS THEREOF WHICH CONTAIN 9 INFORMATION ABOUT MATERIALS, PROCESSES OR ACTIONS THAT MIGHT CAUSE HARM 10 TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH OR ENVIRONMENT; 11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08587-01-3